Tennis

MONACO — Rafael Nadal won nine straight games to open his match against Dominic Thiem, quickly advancing to the Monte Carlo Masters semifinals with a 6-0, 6-2 victory on Friday. The top-ranked Spaniard is on course for a record-extending 11th Monte Carlo title. Thiem, an Austrian who is seeded fifth and beat Nadal twice before

Tennis star Roger Federer is one of six people featured on a Time magazine cover honoring its most influential people of 2018, as six current athletes made the annual list. Along with Federer, Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant and cricket batsman Virat Kohli were recognized in the magazine’s Titans sections. Olympic gold medalist Chloe

MONACO — A day after needing 10 match points to advance, Novak Djokovic didn’t come close to getting even one. The former top-ranked Serb lost to Dominic Thiem 6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-3 Thursday in the third round of the Monte Carlo Masters despite saying recently he was finally playing pain-free after two years of struggles

MONACO — For now, Rafael Nadal doesn’t see himself skipping any major tournaments the way Roger Federer has been sitting out the French Open. The veterans are back at the top of world tennis, with Nadal needing to win the Monte Carlo Masters this week to avoid losing his top ranking once again to Federer

MONACO — Wednesday at the Rolex Monte Carlo Masters is the money ticket for fans, the day the big guns get stuck in. And as Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal went back to back on Court Rainier III, it was hard not to draw a comparison between the man who was once king and the

No one enjoys playing tennis more than Austria’s Dominic Thiem, or at least, no one plays more tennis than Thiem. In his short time on the ATP Tour, the world No 7 has racked up the air miles, quickly establishing himself as the ironman of the men’s game. So it must have come as something

MONACO — Jared Donaldson has been fined $6,200 for unsportsmanlike conduct after ranting at the chair umpire during his first-round loss to Albert Ramos-Vinolas at the Monte Carlo Masters. The American became irate with a call when Ramos-Vinolas was serving at 3-2, 40-0 in the second set on Monday. Donaldson thought the serve was out

Dan Evans will make his comeback from a drugs ban in Glasgow next week after being handed a wildcard entry by the Lawn Tennis Association. Evans, 24, who has served a one-year ban after testing positive for cocaine during the Barcelona Open last year, is set to play in the qualifying draw for the Glasgow

MONACO — Everything Novak Djokovic does on the tennis court right now should come with the disclaimer: “Let’s wait and see.” At least the former world No. 1, who hasn’t been so since November 2016, seems to be moving in the right direction again. Call them baby steps, but on Monday at the picturesque Rolex